What's Changed

• Performance improvements in rendering
• Improvements to interactive scene development
• Improved stroke rendering in 3d
• Refactor StringMobject and relevant classes by @YishiMichael in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/1795
• Fix a logistic bug by @YishiMichael in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/1815
• Add template and additional_preamble parameters to Tex by @YishiMichael in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/1818
• Add set_anim_args to .animate method by @widcardw in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/1862
• Many more misc. bug fixes and improvements

New Contributors

• @alexrintt made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/1787
• @beccare made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/1840
• @CheryX made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/1872
• @IcyChlorine made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/1858
• @zakhar-kogan made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/1879
• @eltociear made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/1913
• @LucaCappelletti94 made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/1962
• @IcedMonk made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/1955
• @sagelywizard made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/1969
• @rudransh61 made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/2028
• @kubanemil made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/2108
• @pdancstep made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/2132
• @osMrPigHead made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/2147
• @jkjkil4 made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/2134
• @MarkHoo made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/2138
• @TangentSquared made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/2079
• @floatwoozy made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/2061
• @germanzhu made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/2059
• @LinZezh1 made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/2036
• @Varniex made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/2009
• @zhujisheng made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/2168
• @fofoni made their first contribution in https://github.com/3b1b/manim/pull/2180

Full Changelog: https://github.com/3b1b/manim/compare/v1.6.1...v1.7.0